Bells. I accept your kind invitation, Zelikman said. My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare. The elephant gave a low moan, startling them, and a moment later they heard a faint trill,...
You can’t walk me to school, Tommy said. He came into the kitchen, sat down before his plate, and stared at it, waiting for Sammy to pile it with eggs. Mom, you can’t possibly. I would die. I would ab...
What kind of heaven is that, you can’t have your records?
Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance.
Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance. Kornblum
The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce somet...
The shaping of a golem, to [Joe] was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce some...
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
The fathers were standing around in their baseball caps, in a knot, smoking and talking. They looked over at Kohn’s van, trying to identify it. Many of them would have known each other all their lives...
The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.
The daily work you put into rearing your children is a kind of intimacy, tedious and invisible as mothering itself. There is another kind of intimacy in the conversations you may have with your childr...
The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would...
Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.
Smoke had left the eye sockets of houses with black eyebrows of astonishment. Cats
Sitting on Rosa's moth-littered bed, he felt a resurgence of all the aches and inspirations of those days when his life had revolved around nothing but Art, when snow fell like the opening piano notes...
She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.
Rabbi Heskel Shpilman is a deformed mountain, a giant ruined desert, a cartoon house with the windows shut and the sink left running. A little kid lumped him together, a mob of kids, blind orphans who...
Praise means so much when it comes from a lunatic